The evening world. Newspaper, April 20, 1920, Page 1

“TO-NIGHT'S WEATHER—Cloudy. Probable Showers. Get the Country Back on Peace Basis VOL. LX. NO. 21, 412—DAILY. Copyright, 1920, Co. (TT! by The Press Publlahing jew York World). NEW ‘YORK, ‘TUESDAY, | APRIL 20, TRACTION FARE GRAB PLOY BROOKLYN STORE POLICEMAN TELLS GETS TEST OF VOTE TO-DAY: PUBLIC HEARING WAS JOKE —— Judiciary Committee Had Power to Act, Says Martin, and Absentee Stitt Agrees. i STEAM ROL LEI ER BUSY. Speaker Sweet’s Machine Promptly Crushes Move for Reconsideration. | By Joseph S. Jordan | pected SiaT Corremondent of The Drening | Work ALBANY, April will be made to-day ‘o rush through | the Assembly the Jenk: on bills which have already a fan un- savory in™ the Capitol. | According to Chairman Martin of the| An attempt reputation “PROPERTY” PISTOL ) |NACTRESS'SHANDS LOOSENS HS TEETH Says Anna Wheaton, Who Denies She Hit lectrician. The lady-like property revolver of the Harris Theatre, loaded with prop- enough to tend realism to anybody’ melodrama, wil] be HExhjbit A in the Judiciary Committee, la night, the public hearing accorded the increased | West Side Court to-morrow. when fare measures Wasn't. even a sop to|Anna Wheaton, leading lady of the public, It was granted appar- | stares eletye ae rat suvil. | rate Schwa ene - fee ene is Cuvil~| ened the fe ‘out of an electrician | last night. Assemblynian George N. Jesse of New York introduced a resolution to have the uction of the Judiciary Com- mittee, in reporting the bills to the Kiules Committee, reconsidered, but Speaker Sweet's steam roller ran over it rough shod and It was laid on| the table for action to-day, by which time the bills, “copies of which will | be on the desks of all the members,” vay the law requires, will be on their | way to final passage. These are the bills which. among other things, give the Public Service Commission the power to | set aside contracts, charter and franchise provision and increase street car fares after six months if local authorities fail to agree with railroad officials as to the increase meantime. The bills were introduced at the eleventh rour when it was supposed by those behind them the time for a public hearing on them had gone by for the reason that all legislation in the Assembly had been referred to the Committee on Ruls. It happened, though, that the life of the Judiciary Committee had been extended, as it had in its hands the investigation of the Anti-Saloon League and the An- 0 The electrician js still alive, but he ays his gold teeth are loose as a re- sult of his terrible experience and he ioesn't want to meet that lady gone any more, His name is Fred J. Raines, he lives at No. 414 West 57th Street and he -was still a bit pale when he appeared in court to-day to ask for a summons. afraid of that woman,” he confessed. “Without me doing any- thing at all to irritate ‘her shesud- denly comes out to the wings last night and shakes me. Then she hits me a crack in the jaw, Then she smashed my hat down over my eyes. And then, Judge, she pulls a gun on me and I throws up my hands and backs out. Now, what's going to be done about that?’ Magistrate Schwab said ‘he would like to hear from the woman in the case, and he ordered that a summons be issued, “And if you are afraid of the gun you can take @ policeman with you,” said the court An Evening World reporter called up Miss Wheaton, who was break- fasting at the Richmond Hotel. She i tebe al giggled. derson contempt proccedings. me A “Is he serious?" she demanded. aceon CEARIGE ee “Well, well, I'll tell you how it was. Publ Telsaiataraan hearing | RHt in the midst of the first set ublic opinion forced a hearing 5 | this elect began t loud when ‘The Evening World 'reveated | ‘M8 electrician began to talk #0 what was behind the secret bills. than 500 men and women came to the Capitol and the views of experts and laymen were laid before the Judiciary Committee. Then on las, Friday morning the Ju@iciary Committee voted that the bills had no place in that committee and decided that they should be sent to the Rules Commit- tee, where was practically assured them. This decision was not arrived at without a fight. Of the Committee of More passage hat I thought the people out front could hear him, When I came off I ave him a tap on the ‘face—just a little tap, you know—and told him not to talk so loud. “In the next act he talked just as loud as ever. That's the act where I use that property gun, you know. Everybody in the theatre, including the audience, knows it's loaded with blanks—but it seems this electrician must have thought it had real bul- lets. Thirteen, there were two absent “I pointed it at him—just as ® Joke S. Evans of the Bro em= nd you ought to have seen how William S. Evans of the Bronx, Dem- | “0 yen Ove ut hia hands up i oorat, and Theodore Stitt of Kings,|'he air and bemaed me not to shoot Republican, Had one of them been|| thought he was just acting, too— present the result would have been al and that ho was a pretty good actor oe amateur, I hadn't the least (Continued on Sece Moen ta tirae iscisneethar ann eantd nd Page.) Classified Advertisers Important! Clansified advertising copy for Me Bunday World should be in The World office On or Before Friday Preceding Publication Barly copy receives tho preference nas to be ng is now Giutied tor task ar tihne to eel ie THE WORLD 0 to court! | teoth You say he claims his loose? ‘That ynust ibe from they chattered."" She satd she would be only too glad to go'see the Judge, | DELAWARE GOVERNOR LOSES Will Not Be Delegate to Repablit- enn National Convention, . Townsend polled 18 of the 142 volea in the caucus, ages “They Chattered Too Much,” | TO CUT SHOE AND Loeser & Co. to Co-operate With Department of Justice in Making Reductions. OTHERS MAY DO SAME. Announcement Follows Con- ference With Federal At- torney and U. S. Agent. what he characterized as “another victory for the consumer.” At the request of the management of Frederick Loeser & Co., one of the ‘vig Fulton Street department stores | in Brooklyn, Mr. Ross, A. W. Riley, head of the “flying squadron” hunt- profiteers, and representatives of erty blanks guaranteed to bang loud | the store conferred. Arrangemerts have been made for other conferences with Brooklyn de- partment store managers this after- noon. Mr. Ross announced that Loeser’s with the Government in its fight against high costs and is prepared, considering present prices goods, to sell a proportion of its mer- chandise on a smaller margin profit than heretofore. Announcement was made that a number of lines of wearing upparel and shoes for men, women and chil- dren wouM be marked down in price, the lines to be selected to be those in greatest demand. Ross said he hoped that other de- partment stores in Brooklyn will meet the crisis in the same way. Loeser’s plan he assorted, was entirely volun- tary on the part of the management. “If this plan becomes general among the big department stores,” he said, “it will do more than anything else to lower prices in every retail store. The committee of retail butchers which has agreed with Ross to handle the gale of the army frozen beef sup- ples reported that it is ready to de- liver the beef atthe United Abatoir Company, No. 663 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, to all retailers. Ross made public the following wholesale prices: Whole steers, 13 cents per pound; hindquarters, 17 cents per pound, and forequarters, 9 cents per pound, All said. Speculative activities in sugar re- ceived another setback to-day in the arrest of KE. B, Sherburne, mem- her of a leading sugar importing firm in Boston, He was released in $1,000 bail for hearing Monday before Fed- eral Commissioner Hitchcock, It is alleged that Mr. Sherburne made an illegitimate profit of more than $40,000 on 960,000 pounds of San Domingo sugar, which arrived about two weeks ago on the Algonquin and was purchased by him from the Sugar Products Company, No. 16 Exchange Place, at 16% cents a pound, On April 14, it 1s charged, he sold the product to Joseph Reiter, whose store is at No. 157 Atlantic Avenue, Brook- lyn, for 21% cents a pound and sold direct from the pier, A wholesaler’s legitimate profit is 1 cent a pound. Sherburne is alleged to have cleared 5% cents a pound. His initial investment was $158,409 The sale netted him $208,800 gross, Since the retailer's le 19 fixed at 2 cents a pound, this San Domingo sugar, bought by the Bosto- nian, as alleged for 16% cents a pound, could not reach the consumer at less than 23% cents a pound. itimate profit DOVER, Del, April 20.<jov, Town- end of Delaware war defeated for dele- gate to the Republivan National Con-| ention in Sussex County caucus, The two ates elected were for- S. Penniwell, Green- ; Tobert Hott, Sea- Mayor Hylan to-day sent to Mr. Riley |letters he received complaining against the high prices charged by grocers and Complaints avout combination silos Jare recelving the attenilon of the “Fly ing Squadron,” the mem of wh hay positively that grocers insisting 0.1 the rs buying other merchan- dise sua the Lever law TAKE BELL-ANS AFTER MEALS and seg bow fine GOOD DIGESTION makes you United States Attorney Ross of | Brooklyn announced this worning | management is anxious to vo-operate | on all! ot} parts of the beef should sell for be- | tween 12 and 3 cents per pound, he | OF FNDING PORTER GLOTHING PRES IN WOMAN'S FLAT Sorger, in Court, Identifies Ex- | Deputy as Man in Raided | Apartment. | FRAME-UP IS CHARGED. Littleton Tries to Show Offi- cers Are Seeking Revenge for Transfers. | | | Most of the time in to-day’s session |of the trial in General Sessions of | Lieut. Col, Augustus Drum Porter for | ‘“neglect of duty” as Third Deputy | Police Commissioner was used by | Martin W. Littleton, Porter's lawyer, in cross-questiofing Hilbart Wheel- wright and Fred Sorger, two of the three detectives who declare they caught Porter and a woman com- panion in a pald and that Porter pre- vented them from “doing their duty” by arresting the woman. Littleton attacked their story as a “frame-up” in revenge for Wheel- wright and Sorger having been taken from special duty and put on patrol. He attacked the character of the for- mer detectives as shown by their records in other cases; he attacked their veracity and caused them to | admit perjury in their previous testi- |mony regarding the raid in Adele Goodel's flat, in which they said they found Porter. Littleton tried in vain to get Wheel- wright to admit that it was not his custom to arrest men and women im making a raid, the object of which was merely to get evidence against the landlady. DENIES PLAN TO “GET SQUARE” WITH PORTER. Q. You told f) spector McDonald you knew why you were being trans- ferred? A. Ye: Q. What was it? A. You'll ltave to ask Commissioner Enright. Commissioner Enright was not in the corridor outside tha court to-day as he had been yesterday. Q. Didn't you tell McDonald you were going to resign from the Police Department and you were going to “get square with Porter’ by making a charge against him ‘because you had an idea he had something to do with your transfer? A. No, Q. How long was it after the In- | spector told you that you were to be transferred that you went to the Dis- trict Attorney? A. Three or four days. Q. How did you happen to go? Why was a subpoenea sent to you? A. I don't know. Q. Didn't Smith tell you that he had the goods on you and Sorger and tell you that if you didn't testify against Porter he would indict you both? A. No, Smith objected to questions tending _(Continued on Second | Page.) WINGS ON FEET NEXT THING FOR They’fe Wearing Birds’ Feathers on Shoes in Paris, and Mme, Crick- boom Brings Style Here. | OME) with wings on their | W feet will soon be tread- | ng Fifth Avenue, accord- ing to Mme. Jeanne Crickboon of | Paris, who arrived here to-day on the French liner, La Touraine, fo visit. Mme. ¢ Whoom said there are flocks of mercury footed women on the streets of Paris. now French style,” she ned, ‘They are wearing wings of ali varieties and a now ornament Fopular Matinee Wedlnenday gf “Flere dora” at the Century, Best Seale 62,—Adrt, NEW YORK WOMEN) (1920. New York, Entered ne Seshad-Clase Matter Fost Office, You NY 24 PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS, ‘Queen Victoria eR of Spain And Three of Her Children TUBE TRAINS RUN; JERSEY CITY OPENS WAR ON NEW FARES Policemen on Guard as Serv- ice, at Increased Rate, Is Extended to Hoboken. Corporation Attorney John ley of Jersey City announced to-day that a fight will be started at once against the increased fares on the Hudson Tubes, ‘The tubes had no gooner restored a small fraction of the long interrupted service than they boosted the inter-| Bent-| state fare, making it 6 cents to down- town New York and 10 to uptown. “We are going to attack not only | the increased fares but also the fail- | ure of the company to provide ade-| quate service, its failure to remedy the overcrowding of trains, and its failure to keep the cars in a sanitary | and well ventilated condition,” said | Mr. Bentley. “The present gituation is disgraceful. The next hearing be- fore the Interstate Commerce mission will be held on April 29. Com in New York | buil | other, 100 PHONE GIRLS STICK TO POSTS AS FRE ROUTS 200 | $200,000 stags | in Rear of Brooklyn Exchange Drives Many From Homes. hundred telephone operators in the Stagy and Willlamsburg ex- changes, in Boerum Street, Brook:yn, remained at their posts during a fire , that destroyed the building in the rear at 4 A. M, to-day, The smoke came through open win- dows and filled the rooms in which they worked, but not one offered to quit work. Police and firemen as- sured them there was no immediate danger, and that guards would remain | just outside to warn them of a spread of the flames, About two hundred residents of ad- joining buildings were herded into Lorimer, McKibben and Boerum Streets until the fire Bridge was suspended for an hour. he fire started in the six-story loft Nos. 7-15 McKibben Street, Joccupied by wood working concerns, jand spread to | side Nos. 3 and 6 on one and to Nos, 19 and 21 on the! then th saienlng Nos, 261 and Mayor Patrick R. Griffin of Hoboken said that city would protest by means possible at the hearing the 29th, Service to Jersey City, reinstated on late yesterday afternoon in a more or | less irregular way, was begun on| schedule at 7 o'clock this morning At 10 o'clock service was begun Hoboken, connecting Pennsylvania Station with the Erie and the awanna Railroads. Four trains, on all of which Jersey City and New York «policemen wer stationed as a precautionary measu went into service between Hudson | Terminal in Manhattan and Exchange Place, yey City | > - WII Not Abolish Death Penatty ALBANY, April 20.—The 19 to 28 this afternoon def, Boylan bill to abolish the d ality ie WORLD RESTAURANT breast sind ff Buutted London roi! Whote dinaer, iat we aia 'th, Warid Bidg telephone exchan, imer 20 perum Str next door to the! ul business bulld- ngs. Three alarms were the dan wound: estimated at $200,000 ,, WORKING GIRLS FIX | LIMIT THEY’LL PAY FOR THEIR CLOTHES was tits, $10 and $2 DETROIT, April 20-One + women stenographe bookkeepe ind other office workers pledged ¢ 4 NOL to exceed these max- ri hats and shoes, $10 un jus dy 3, anal | was out, and| trolley service over the Williamsburg | ‘and damaging No! WILSON AND CABINET { BANDITS SHOOT TWO ON TRAIN OF SPAIN'S QUEEN IN EFFORT TO STEAL THE ROYAL PLATE Former Princess Ena of Battenberg | and Her Brother, Marquis of Caris- brooke, Have Narrow Escapes From Daring Hold-UpMen—Train Hands Wounded by Fusillade. | travelling from Madrid to Seville in mortally. OVERALLS FOR $40, NEWARK ‘BARGAIN’ Brickiayers and Bankers Also Can Get 'Em With Rhinestone Buckles for $43.50, PSIDENTS of Newark were R trying to figure out whether one of the local merchants is peeved at the overalls move- ment or merely indulging a play- ful humor, In his advertising to- day the merchant says he has overalls “for bricklaying, bank- ing, boilermaking, bookkeeping, fishing, school, gardening, ban- quets, chureh and the theatre.” They are pleasingly priced, he says, as follows: Plain @veralls $2.25 to $3.50, Overalls with belts and solid gold, sterling silver and French enamel buckles, from $40 up. Overalls with rhinestone buckles, $43.50. None of the rhinestone-buckle overalls had been seen at Broad and Market up to 2 P. M, HIGHER PAY FOR ARMY AND NAVY Officers as Well as Men Will Bene- fit Under Terms of Agreement Reached in Congress To-Day. WASHINGTON, April 20.—Agree- ment to increase the pay of the army, navy, marine corps, coast guard and army nursing corps was reached by House and Senate conferees to-day. The amoum has not been agreed upon, Any Increase fixed will apply to all services, it was agreed. Increases wil be granted to officers as weil as men. IN SESSION AGAIN Discuss ant Questions During Hour and a Quarter Confer ence at Wt House, WASHINGTON, April 20. wil t hia Cabinet t President » lay for the cond time since hia iiness inter J the regular He of me last fall, As on last Wednesday, when a special mi owas called to sider the railroad strike, Cabinet mem: bers went to the President's study in the White Hous ead of to the reg- War Cabinet re in the executive offices, meeting lasted for an hour a quarter, IC Was aald that the ra roud, strike situation and international blems af Mexico ne and Gere SEVILLE, Spain, April 20.—Bandits attacked a train last nignt on which Queen Victoria and her brother, the Marquis of Carisbrooke, were the royal plate which the Queen was taking with her, , The robbers, Who were well armed, opened a regular fusillade when - | discovered, wounding two of the railway, men, one of them probabily i. no clue * The bandits escaped in a two-horse bet their identity. an “unsuccessful attempt to carry ee WILSON HINTS AT ‘CONGRESS SESSION ALL ThE SUMMER Insists That Important Legis- lation Shall Be Passed Be- fore Adjournment. By David Lawrence (Spreial Corremondent of the Evening Wort.) WASHINGTON, April 20.—(Copy- right 1920)—President Wilson is bee sinning to torment Congress, Hints have come from the White House that while Mr. Wilson has no desire to keep Congress session continuously in during the hot summer months of the campaign, neverthe- less he may consider such a course if the legislative branch of the Gov- ernment endeavors to adjourn with- out enacting laws on the several sub- Jects relating to the high living and governmental economy recommended by the Chief Executive. Congress doesn’t want to work here this summer. Individual members are anxious to be in their districts helping themselves and the candi« dates on the top of their respective tickets. Democrats are equally cager to be in the campaign. But Mr. Wile son is @ hard taskmaster and has managed throughout his Administra- tion to keep Congress longer at work than any other President’ in recent years, QUESTIONS WHICH THE PRES}- DENT 1S ASKING. But it is significant that the White House is beginning to ask questions, What, for instance, has Congress done about tariff legisintion,. exceas Profits taxes, help for’ the rewirned soldiers and sundry otber weasuréd? or cost of course, Congress goted very properly the other day thats dent hy elf was looking for a suii- mer home and was preparing to be- take himself from the National Capl- tol to somew the seacoast aind some members of Congress thought it meant an armistice and that beth branches of the vernment could concentrate all their time and atten- tion on politics instead of part of £ ie time as heretofore. : Other members of Congress thous it was a good time to take a sea trtp and so scores of them have signell any were. jnentioned only in a gone tralway. in the discuasion of the vas riety of topics called to the President's ittcntion. by his secretary Liberty Bonds Le ey Ow Quoted. 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